Dial, The

US magazine of transcendentalism 1840-44, founded in Boston by several of the transcendentalist group, including Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) and Ralph Waldo Emerson, its first and second editors respectively. Publishing Henry Thoreau and other major essayists and poets, it had great intellectual influence. Several later magazines used the same title. The Dial of the 1920s published modern poetry and criticism under Marianne Moore's editorship.